Help!

[rein2021]

New pool owner! I'm having trouble balancing my pool. Vinyl liner, SWG, 22,000 gallons. Tested today and these are my numbers:
TA - 150
pH - 6.9
CH - 475
CYA - less than 30
Free Cl2 - 5.6
Combined Cl2 - 0.4

What should I do??

 

[mknauss]

How did you get those test results?
Chemically it is difficult to impossible to have a TA of 150 ppm and a pH of 6.9.

Until you can get a proper test kit, add 3 ppm FC worth of liquid chlorine to the pool each day.

 

[rein2021]

How did you get those test results?
Chemically it is difficult to impossible to have a TA of 150 ppm and a pH of 6.9.

Until you can get a proper test kit, add 3 ppm FC worth of liquid chlorine to the pool each day.

I used the Taylor test kit recommended on this site.

 

[mknauss]

OK -- I would redo the TA test. See Total Alkalinity - Trouble Free Pool

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[mknauss]

When you do the FC test, use 10 ml of water, one heaping scoop of R0870, and each drop of R0871 to clear is 0.5ppm FC.